Vietnam targets to send 110,000 workers abroad

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018, with 40 percent being women.
Vietnam targets to send 110,000 workers abroad ảnh 1The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018. (Photo: nld.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs(MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018,with 40 percent being women.

The ministry will try to maintain traditional labour markets like the Republicof Korea, Japan and Taiwan (China). This year, it will focus on increasingquality of the workers to ensure competitiveness and incomes.

MOLISA Deputy Minister Doan Mau Dieu said that the Department of OverseasLabour should study to make recommendations for the amendment of the law onVietnamese workers working overseas under contracts while renewing inspectionwork.

Solutions should be deployed to strictly manage and protect the interests ofVietnamese labourers working in foreign countries, he noted.

Last year, over 134,700 workers went to work abroad, including 53,340 femaleworkers. The figure exceeded the annual plan set for 2017 by 28.3 percent. Thisis also the fourth consecutive year that the number of workers sent overseas hassurpassed the 100,000 benchmark.

Taiwan led in hiring Vietnamese guest workers with 67,000 people in 2017, nearlyhalf of the total number of Vietnamese workers overseas. As of the end of 2017,the number of Vietnamese workers working in Taiwan stood at 206,184, with 87percent employed in industrial manufacturing and 13 percent in social services.

Japanwas the second largest market for Vietnamese guest workers, receiving 54,504workers in 2017, up 36.47 percent from 2016, bringing the total number ofVietnamese trainees in Japan to over 100,000, the highest among 15 countriessending trainees to Japan.

Other labour markets receiving large numbers of Vietnamese workers were theRepublic of Korea (over 5,100 workers), Saudi Arabia (3,626), Malaysia (1,551),Algeria (760) and Romania (683).

The results were attributable to the MoLISA’s efforts like organising aconference with 280 labour export enterprises to remove bottlenecks in the workand discuss measures to improve their operation efficiency and workers’quality.

Last year, the ministry granted licences for 44 more labour export companiesand carried out inspections in 29 firms sending workers abroad in contracts. Theinspection revealed violations of labour export regulations at 16 companies andfive companies had their licenses revoked. Meanwhile, three others were orderedto suspend their operation for 6-9 months. -VNA
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